Apple presents the Apple Music Voice offer

Unlike other Apple Music offers, the Voice version does not give access to clips, karaoke mode, listening in space audio or lossless pieces. All these functions remain reserved for traditional offers.

Apple Music lowers its price to 4.99 euros per month … but only if you use it with Siri

With the “Apple Music Voice” offer, Apple’s musical streaming service has never been so affordable. At 4.99 euros per month, it nevertheless impasse on a real application for the benefit of voice piloting. Amazing.

No one had seen him coming, Apple launches a more affordable version of its Apple Music streaming service. Marketed at a rate of 4.99 euros per month (after a 7 -day trial period), the new “Apple Music Voice” offer is a kind of mixing between the free versions that can be found in some competitors (Spotify , Deezer, etc.) and the classic version of Apple Music, at 9.99 euros per month. At this call rate, Apple seems to ignore the application Music And put on voice piloting, which therefore limits the service to iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, AirPods and HomePod.

A very limited Apple Music

The “Apple Music Voice” offer is quite difficult to understand. On paper, it offers the same catalog as classic Apple Music offers, 90 million pieces and the possibility of changing unlimited pieces, without any advertising. However, experience has little to do with what is usually found on streaming services.

Indeed, everything goes by Siri. To launch a playlist or a song, you must ask the voice assistant. In the application Music, tabs For you, Explore And Library should not be available. There will only be a history of the songs listened to as well as musical recommendations. At any time, an “Apple Music Voice” subscriber can switch to a classic offer.

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Unlike other Apple Music offers, the Voice version does not give access to clips, karaoke mode, listening in space audio or lossless pieces. All these functions remain reserved for traditional offers.

Available this fall (without official date), Apple Music Voice should allow Apple to introduce its streaming service to some irreducible before doing them, possibly, switch to the classic offer. Recall that at 4.99 euros per month, students can benefit from the full Apple Music via the UnaDays site.

Apple presents the Apple Music Voice offer

Cupertino, California Apple today unveils the Apple Music Voice offer, a new Apple Music subscription formula designed around SIRI technology. The Apple Music Voice offer allows people who subscribe to access the catalog of 90 million songs, tens of thousands of playlists including hundreds of new mood and activity playlists, personalized mix and stations by musical genre, as well as at the Apple Music Radio service. All accessible via Siri for only € 4.99 per month.

“Apple Music and Siri are naturally associated and already work very well together,” said Oliver Schusser, vice president of Apple Music and Beats. “Given Siri’s active use of hundreds of millions of devices in the world, we are delighted to launch this new offer which offers an intuitive musical experience, by the simple use of voice, and which makes Apple Music even more accessible. »»

It is possible to subscribe to the Apple Music Voice offer by pronouncing “Say Siri, launches my Apple Music Voice trial period”, or via the Apple Music app. With this subscription, users will be able to ask Siri to listen to music on all their devices compatible with Siri, including the HomePod Mini, the Airpods, the iPhone and any other Apple device, as well as on Carplay.

Apple Music will add hundreds of new mood and activity playlists developed by Apple Music editorial teams and fully optimized for voice command. It will be enough to say for example “launches the playlist dinner with friends”, “plays something to relax” or “plays more pieces of this style” to enjoy a really personalized musical experience. These new playlists will be accessible to all Apple Music users, whatever their subscription; which will make the experience of Apple Music with Siri even better. The Apple Music Voice offer will also give access to all Apple Music playlists, including the popular New Music Daily, Tobes of the moment, the Code, French Hits, Tobes of Tomorrow, Rap Life, Actus Pop, and full d ‘others.

The Apple Music Voice offer will be available in the fall in 17 countries: Germany, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Spain, the United States, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Taiwan.

Subscribers to the Apple Music Voice offer will benefit from personalized experience within the app, with recommendations based on their musical preferences; They can also find the list of the latest songs listened to via Siri. In the app, the “Ask Siri” section will present tips to optimize Siri for Apple Music.

To access the premium features of Apple Music, including space audio and Lossless quality, or even lyrics and video clips, it is easy to go to the Apple Music Subscription at any time at a price of 9.99 € per month or a family subscription comprising up to six accounts for € 14.99 per month.

Price and availability

• The new Apple Music Voice offer will be available at the price of € 4.99 per month later this fall, in some countries.

• Apple Music’s complete catalog containing more than 90 million songs is accessible via Siri.

• Subscribers have access to all reading orders via Siri, including the possibility of skipping pieces in an unlimited way.

• The Apple Music Voice offer will offer hundreds of new stations and playlists for each mood and activity, designed to operate simply by voice command.

• Subscribers will be able to access the Apple Music Voice offer on all of their SIRI compatible devices and features, including HomePod Mini, Airpods, Carplay, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and the Mac.

• A free seven -day trial period, valid only once and without automatic renewal, will be offered to non -subscribed people who use Siri to listen to music.